Kernel: local dos vulnerability in scatterwalk_copychunks
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 4.7epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 85% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A null pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel API for the cryptographic algorithm scatterwalk functionality. This issue occurs when a user constructs a malicious packet with specific socket configuration, which could allow a local user to crash the system or escalate their privileges on the system.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9References
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/177029/Kernel-Live-Patch-Security-Notice-LSN-0100-1.htmlhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2394https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2950https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:3138https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-6176https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2219359https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cfaa80c91f6f99b9342b6557f0f0e1143e434066